Electronic Arts will unveil Battlefield 3 for the press at the Game Developers Conference on March 1, 2011, reports IGN, where they say EA will also use the occasion to offer showings of Shadows of the Damned, Alice Madness Returns, Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning, and Crysis 2. Thanks mulder.

What part of the mega tons of sales and money they made from those (both on consoles and on PC) convinced them they needed to put more work into the game on things like dedicated?Remember that MW2 was the big test to see if removing dedicated servers would work (and all those other game companies chiming in that they were going to be watching the release of MW2 very closely as an example), and it did work.

4D-Boxing wrote on Jan 11, 2011, 19:20:Please let me set up my own server ...

Let's hope all devs have realised that BC2/COD:BO approach does not work. I want the same lag free smooth experience I used to have when people could set up their own servers.

This absolutely needs to be 64 players or more. Not more taking backward steps. I would honestly prefer not to see a PC version than a laggy buggy PC version that will make the platform look bad!

I really hope they go more PC centric in the features with this game, I want the bigger maps, jets, and larger battles. I'd love to see them setup dedicated servers for console version and finally get us all into the 64 player games instead of that only being something on the PC.

And how about basic map settings as well, it drives me nuts that you can't simply change the armies/vehicles fighting on each map so that you can use all available weapons on each maps rather than being forced into the same battles over and over. In BFBC2 it seemed like you barely got to fly the hind and the chinese helo because they would only spawn in very particular places on certain maps while the apache was more common because it spawned in starting zones on some maps. You should be able to vote on which army to use so that everything gets more time on screen.

Looking forward to what they have to show. How about dedicated servers for consoles so we can have 64 player games! Go big DICE! Even if it's only on the PS3, it's time to setup dedicated servers for consoles so you can at least get 32 player games going but why not go for broke and make 64 player games standard!?